Examination of Potential Industry Conflicts of Interest and Disclosures by Contributors to Online Medical Resource Databases.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Physicians contribute content to online databases, and other health care professionals use these websites to support their decision-making. Financial conflicts of interest (COI) have the potential to adversely impact evidence-based patient care.

Objectives

To quantify the potential COI among content contributors to 2 popular point-of-care medical resources, UpToDate and DynaMed, overall and by gender, and to compare self-reported and industry-mandated disclosures.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study compiled an initial list of contributors for each website using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Leading Causes of Death. The top 50 causes were used to identify relevant articles from each database from November 30 to De

SUBMITTER: VanDeMark SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9257578 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature